Designing Rewards for Rewarding Designs: Demonstrating the Impact of Rewards on the Creative Design Process.

Surabhi S. Nath

Surabhi S. Nath Vindula Jayawardana Monica P. Van Matt Klenk Shabnam Hakimi Designing Rewards for Rewarding Designs: Demonstrating the Impact of Rewards on the Creative Design Process. 2026 April abs/2604.26083 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.26083 db/journals/corr/corr2604.html#abs-2604-26083 streams/journals/corr

Marcel Binz Elif Akata Abdullah Almaatouq Mohammed Alsobay Oleksii Ariasov Franziska Brändle David Broska Jason W. Burton Nuno Busch Frederick Callaway Vanessa Cheung Brian R. Christian Julian Coda-Forno Can Demircan Vittoria Dentella Maria K. Eckstein Noémi Élteto Michael Franke Thomas L. Griffiths 0001 Fritz Günther Susanne Haridi Sebastian Hellmann 0003 Stefan Herytash Linus Hof Eleanor Holton Isabelle Hoxha Zak Hussain Akshay K. Jagadish Elif Kara Valentin Kriegmair Evelina Leivada Ji-An Li Tobias Ludwig 0003 Maximilian Maier Marcelo G. Mattar Marvin Mathony Alireza Modirshanechi Robin Na Mariia Nadverniuk Antonios Nasioulas Surabhi S. Nath Helen Niemeyer Kate Nussenbaum Sebastian Olschewski Thorsten Pachur Stefano Palminteri Aliona Petrenco Camille V. Phaneuf-Hadd Angelo Pirrone Manuel Rausch Laura Raveling Shashank Reddy Milena Rmus Evan M. Russek Tankred Saanum Kai Sandbrink Louis Schiekiera Johannes A. Schubert Luca M. Schulze Buschoff Nishad Singhi Leah H. Somerville Mikhail S. Spektor Xin Sui Christopher Summerfield Mirko Thalmann Anna Isabel Thoma Taisiia Tikhomirova Vuong Truong Polina Tsvilodub Konstantinos Voudouris Kristin Witte Shuchen Wu Dirk U. Wulff Huadong Xiong Songlin Xu Lance Ying Xinyu Zhang Jian-Qiao Zhu Eric Schulz Post-training makes large language models less human-like. 2026 May abs/2605.07632 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.07632 db/journals/corr/corr2605.html#abs-2605-07632 streams/journals/corr

Marcel Binz Elif Akata Matthias Bethge Franziska Brändle Fred Callaway Julian Coda-Forno Peter Dayan Can Demircan Maria K. Eckstein Noémi Élteto Thomas L. Griffiths 0001 Susanne Haridi Akshay K. Jagadish Ji-An Li Alexander Kipnis Sreejan Kumar Tobias Ludwig 0003 Marvin Mathony Marcelo G. Mattar Alireza Modirshanechi Surabhi S. Nath Joshua C. Peterson Milena Rmus Evan M. Russek Tankred Saanum Johannes A. Schubert Luca M. Schulze Buschoff Nishad Singhi Xin Sui Mirko Thalmann Fabian J. Theis Vuong Truong Vishaal Udandarao Konstantinos Voudouris Robert C. Wilson Kristin Witte Shuchen Wu Dirk U. Wulff Huadong Xiong Eric Schulz A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition. 1002-1009 2025 August 644 Nat. 8078 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09215-4 db/journals/nature/nature644.html#BinzABBCCDDEEGHJLKKLMMM25 streams/journals/nature

Surabhi S. Nath Guiomar del Cuvillo y Schröder Claire E. Stevenson Pencils to Pixels: A Systematic Study of Creative Drawings across Children, Adults and AI. 2025 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rq6h8xg conf/cogsci/2025 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2025.html#NathSS25 Karahan Saritas Peter Dayan Tingke Shen Surabhi S. Nath Complexity in Complexity: Understanding Visual Complexity Through Structure, Color, and Surprise. 2025 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g6408z2 conf/cogsci/2025 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2025.html#SaritasDSN25

Karahan Saritas Tingke Shen Surabhi S. Nath Peter Dayan A Data-Centric Approach: Dimensions of Visual Complexity and How to find Them. 2025 January abs/2501.15890 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.15890 db/journals/corr/corr2501.html#abs-2501-15890 streams/journals/corr

Surabhi S. Nath Guiomar del Cuvillo y Schröder Claire E. Stevenson Pencils to Pixels: A Systematic Study of Creative Drawings across Children, Adults and AI. 2025 February abs/2502.05999 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.05999 db/journals/corr/corr2502.html#abs-2502-05999 streams/journals/corr

Vishaal Udandarao Shyamgopal Karthik Surabhi S. Nath Andreas Hochlehnert Matthias Bethge Ameya Prabhu Solving Spatial Supersensing Without Spatial Supersensing. 2025 November abs/2511.16655 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.16655 db/journals/corr/corr2511.html#abs-2511-16655 streams/journals/corr

Tingke Shen Surabhi S. Nath Aenne Brielmann Peter Dayan Simplicity in Complexity: Explaining Visual Complexity using Deep Segmentation Models. 2024 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6c29t1gn conf/cogsci/2024 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2024.html#ShenNBD24 Surabhi S. Nath Peter Dayan Claire E. Stevenson Characterising the Creative Process in Humans and Large Language Models. 325-330 2024 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/papers/ICCC24_paper_179.pdf conf/icccrea/2024 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2024.html#NathDS24

Kevin Shen Surabhi S. Nath Aenne Brielmann Peter Dayan Simplicity in Complexity. 2024 abs/2403.03134 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.03134 db/journals/corr/corr2403.html#abs-2403-03134

Surabhi S. Nath Peter Dayan Claire E. Stevenson Characterising the Creative Process in Humans and Large Language Models. 2024 abs/2405.00899 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.00899 db/journals/corr/corr2405.html#abs-2405-00899

Marcel Binz Elif Akata Matthias Bethge Franziska Brändle Fred Callaway Julian Coda-Forno Peter Dayan Can Demircan Maria K. Eckstein Noémi Élteto Thomas L. Griffiths 0001 Susanne Haridi Akshay K. Jagadish Ji-An Li Alexander Kipnis Sreejan Kumar Tobias Ludwig 0003 Marvin Mathony Marcelo G. Mattar Alireza Modirshanechi Surabhi S. Nath Joshua C. Peterson Milena Rmus Evan M. Russek Tankred Saanum Natalia Scharfenberg Johannes A. Schubert Luca M. Schulze Buschoff Nishad Singhi Xin Sui Mirko Thalmann Fabian J. Theis Vuong Truong Vishaal Udandarao Konstantinos Voudouris Robert C. Wilson Kristin Witte Shuchen Wu Dirk U. Wulff Huadong Xiong Eric Schulz Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition. 2024 abs/2410.20268 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.20268 db/journals/corr/corr2410.html#abs-2410-20268 streams/journals/corr

Surabhi S. Nath Inside the Grid, yet Outside the Box: Computational Investigations of Human Creativity using Pixel Patterns. 28-34 2023 Creativity & Cognition https://doi.org/10.1145/3591196.3596812 conf/candc/2023 db/conf/candc/candc2023.html#Nath23

Haomiao Jin Surabhi S. Nath Stefan Schneider 0007 Doerte U. Junghaenel Shinyi Wu Charles Kaplan An informatics approach to examine decision-making impairments in the daily life of individuals with depression. 103913 2021 122 J. Biomed. Informatics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103913 db/journals/jbi/jbi122.html#JinNSJWK21

Surabhi S. Nath Vishaal Udandarao Jainendra Shukla It's LeVAsa not LevioSA! Latent Encodings for Valence-Arousal Structure Alignment. 238-242 2021 COMAD/CODS https://doi.org/10.1145/3430984.3431037 conf/comad/2021 db/conf/comad/comad2021.html#NathUS21 Surabhi S. Nath Hear Her Fear: Data Sonification for Sensitizing Society on Crime Against Women in India. 86-91 2020 IndiaHCI https://doi.org/10.1145/3429290.3429307 conf/inhci/2020 db/conf/inhci/indiahci2020.html#Nath20

Surabhi S. Nath Vishaal Udandarao Jainendra Shukla It's LeVAsa not LevioSA! Latent Encodings for Valence-Arousal Structure Alignment. 2020 abs/2007.10058 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10058 db/journals/corr/corr2007.html#abs-2007-10058

Surabhi S. Nath Hear her Fear: Data Sonification for Sensitizing Society on Crime Against Women in India. 2020 abs/2009.14182 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14182 db/journals/corr/corr2009.html#abs-2009-14182

Baani Leen Kaur Jolly Palash Aggrawal Surabhi S. Nath Viresh Gupta Manraj Singh Grover Rajiv Ratn Shah Universal EEG Encoder for Learning Diverse Intelligent Tasks. 213-218 2019 BigMM https://doi.org/10.1109/BigMM.2019.00-23 conf/bigmm/2019 db/conf/bigmm/bigmm2019.html#JollyANGGS19 Surabhi S. Nath Dyutiman Mukhopadhyay Krishna P. Miyapuram Emotive Stimuli-triggered Participant-based Clustering Using a Novel Split-and-Merge Algorithm. 277-280 2019 COMAD/CODS https://doi.org/10.1145/3297001.3297040 conf/comad/2019 db/conf/comad/comad2019.html#NathMM19

Baani Leen Kaur Jolly Palash Aggrawal Surabhi S. Nath Viresh Gupta Manraj Singh Grover Rajiv Ratn Shah Universal EEG Encoder for Learning Diverse Intelligent Tasks. 2019 abs/1911.12152 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12152 db/journals/corr/corr1911.html#abs-1911-12152

Palash Aggrawal Elif Akata Abdullah Almaatouq Mohammed Alsobay Oleksii Ariasov Matthias Bethge Marcel Binz Franziska Brändle Aenne Brielmann David Broska Jason W. Burton Nuno Busch Luca M. Schulze Buschoff Frederick CallawayFred Callaway Vanessa Cheung Brian R. Christian Julian Coda-Forno Peter Dayan Can Demircan Vittoria Dentella Maria K. Eckstein Noémi Élteto Michael Franke Thomas L. Griffiths 0001 Manraj Singh Grover Fritz Günther Viresh Gupta Shabnam Hakimi Susanne Haridi Sebastian Hellmann 0003 Stefan Herytash Andreas Hochlehnert Linus Hof Eleanor Holton Isabelle Hoxha Zak Hussain Akshay K. Jagadish Vindula Jayawardana Haomiao Jin Baani Leen Kaur Jolly Doerte U. Junghaenel Charles Kaplan Elif Kara Shyamgopal Karthik Alexander Kipnis Matthew Klenk 0001Matt Klenk Valentin Kriegmair Sreejan Kumar Evelina Leivada Ji-An Li Tobias Ludwig 0003 Maximilian Maier Marvin Mathony Marcelo G. Mattar Krishna P. Miyapuram Alireza Modirshanechi Dyutiman Mukhopadhyay Robin Na Mariia Nadverniuk Antonios Nasioulas Helen Niemeyer Kate Nussenbaum Sebastian Olschewski Thorsten Pachur Stefano Palminteri Joshua C. Peterson Aliona Petrenco Camille V. Phaneuf-Hadd Angelo Pirrone Ameya Prabhu Manuel Rausch Laura Raveling Shashank Reddy Milena Rmus Evan M. Russek Tankred Saanum Kai Sandbrink Karahan Saritas Natalia Scharfenberg Louis Schiekiera Stefan Schneider 0007 Guiomar del Cuvillo y Schröder Johannes A. Schubert Eric Schulz Rajiv Ratn Shah Kevin Shen Tingke Shen Jainendra Shukla Nishad Singhi Leah H. Somerville Mikhail S. Spektor Claire E. Stevenson Xin Sui Christopher Summerfield Mirko Thalmann Fabian J. Theis Anna Isabel Thoma Taisiia Tikhomirova Vuong Truong Polina Tsvilodub Vishaal Udandarao Monica P. Van Konstantinos Voudouris Robert C. Wilson Kristin Witte Shinyi Wu Shuchen Wu Dirk U. Wulff Huadong Xiong Songlin Xu Lance Ying Xinyu Zhang Jian-Qiao Zhu